Roy v. Supreme Court of United States

484 F. App'x 700

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Decided: October 4, 2012
• Docket: 12-3365
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

On July 24, 2012, Kamal Kama Roy of Saranac Lake, New York, filed a pro se civil rights complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, naming the Supreme Court of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States, the President of the United States, the United States Government, and several private companies and universities as defendants. The District Court granted Roy leave to proceed in forma pauperis but immediately dismissed his complaint without leave to amend, citing its incomprehensibility in addition to its failure to conform to the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a). Roy timely filed this appeal.

We have jurisdiction to hear this appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, given the District Court’s dismissal of the complaint without leave to amend. See Borelli v. City of Reading, 532 F.2d 950, 951-52 (3d Cir.1976). We agree with the District Court that the complaint is incomprehensible and that it fails to comply with Rule 8. See In re Westinghouse Sec. Litig., 90 F.3d 696, 702 (3d Cir.1996). While a court must ordinarily grant leave to amend a deficient complaint, we believe that the District Court was not required to do so under the circumstances presented here. See Gray- son v. Mayview State Hosp., 293 F.3d 103, 108 (3d Cir.2002).